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Matthew Sullivan @sulli864.bsky.social · 16h

Somewhere on this globe it is still Elmore Leonard’s 100th birthday. Many happy returns to the ‘poet laureate of wild assholes with revolvers’ as the NME, (I think) called him. Away for a fortnight & before I knew it was his centenary 6 of the 12 books I packed were his.

Glitz, Bandits, 52 Pick Up & Gunsights, all in paperback, all by Mr Elmore Leonard.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 23h

Beckett would be so pleased. 75 years on and he's still alienating the bourgeoisie. couldn't ask for a better review.

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 4d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Jeremy Bartels @jeremybartels.bsky.social · 1d

If I mention Berlin, does a film (or book) other than Possession come to mind?

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Ingo Stützle @istuetzle.bsky.social · 1d

Damit begann die Liebe zum @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

LLMs are doubly deceptive. Most people think that they can ask it a question and get an answer. The majority of the rest think that you can ask an LLM a question and it will return what an answer might look like, statistically.

But it's actually even worse. It doesn't "read" the prompt; it guesses.

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Jeremy Bartels @jeremybartels.bsky.social · 1d

Werner Herzog is iconic, but the early films are still what are referenced, besides his acting roles

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Anne Rabe @annerabe.bsky.social · 1d

wir alle gemeinsam dafür sorgen, dass diese Angriffe wirkungslos bleiben. Also kauft Bücher aus dem fantastischen Programm. Es hilft und es macht auch noch klüger. Solidarität ist konkret!
Hier geht’s zur breiten Auswahl:
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www.verbrecherverlag.de/shop/

Verbrecher Shop – Verbrecher Verlag

www.verbrecherverlag.de

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Anne Rabe @annerabe.bsky.social · 1d

Natürlich ist ein so guter, kluger und kämpferischer Verlag wie der @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social Rechtsextremisten ein Dorn im
Auge, natürlich versuchen sie auf alles, was Kultur ist, was Denken ist und Progression Angriffe zu starten. Das sind Angriffe auf uns alle und deswegen sollten 1/2

Ich mit dem Buch von Milo Rau: ,Widerstand hat keine Form Widerstand ist die Form‘, das im Verbrecherverlag erschienen ist.

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 1d

For all my rarebit fiend friends
(idea and illustration by my son)

Loss but the guy is carrying a welsh rarebit and in the final panel his wife is replaced by the black and white rarebit fiend saying "Oh! Oh! No! Oh! No! Oh! I was dreaming. Oh! What a relief. I'm going to quit eating those confounded rarebits. Oh! My What an awful dream! Oh!"

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

shares on this would be a help! slow sales day so far, though i will be fine

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

Hello bluesky! I'm Nora and I have a jewelry store focused on fused glass; I also have game tokens and worry stones.

Collage: nora.jewelry/collections/...
Cluster: nora.jewelry/collections/...
Worry stones: nora.jewelry/search?q=wor...
Earrings: nora.jewelry/collections/...

#bsnm

ad for the nora.jewelry collage collection, which consists of pieces made from patterned cane with some transparency piled on top of other different color canes and turned into a molded shape; the transparency creates a lot of depth in the final pieces, because you can see through the transparent bits to what is behind it. pictures are a pair of round green, white and purple cufflinks, a orange and yellow bolo tie, and a teardrop shaped pendant with a green/white design added to a pink design

ad for the cluster collection, a group of fused glass pendants (and a couple other things, but only pendants are pictured) made from placing glass cylinders on their ends in a group and melting them just enough to round them out but not enough to make them fully puddle like most of my designs. the result of this ends up looking a bit like fish eggs adhered to a flat surface, or a bundle of grapes. the ones pictured are a simple round aqua blue design with yellow middles, a purple design with distorted flowers (this one started out as regular flowers but rounded their petals in the kiln, blurring them) and a round tan design with brown and white middles.

worry stone collection: this one has an orange collage design worry stone in an abstract shape, a white and green one where the edges between the colors blur, and a round one in a bi pride pattern.

earring collection: this one shows a sparkly green aventurine pair of round earrings, one that's white/grey/clear with black spots (that one's made from spiral cane that I made flat and you can see the spiral in the final design) and one with swirling green, yellow and pink set in white.

all the backgrounds on all of these are an aventurine dragonskin sheet that i put at low transparency over white, so they have a lacy quality to them.

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Jeremy Bartels @jeremybartels.bsky.social · 1d

Michael Winterbottom? Wayne Wang?

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Jeremy Bartels @jeremybartels.bsky.social · 1d

Robert Acheman #moregoth

Jeremy Bartels @jeremybartels.bsky.social · 1d

MRI James #moregoth

It’s Alive! Barker @kellylink.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen The King in Yellow #moregoth

Jeremy Bartels @jeremybartels.bsky.social · 1d

Aubrey Feardsley #moregoth

Jeremy Bartels @jeremybartels.bsky.social · 1d

MRI James #moregoth

It’s Alive! Barker @kellylink.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen The King in Yellow #moregoth

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1d

you do not have to be a parent to fully appreciate the horrors of this but also it is so hard to be a parent and to know that other people who have the same role and love as you do are going through this needless, random and permanently damaging terror

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 1d

I’d invite German newspaper readers to reflect on the number of articles you’re seeing atm about a researcher on anti-fascism having to flee the US (I found 2) compared to the time a student thought the bánh mì was inauthentic.

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Jeremy Bartels @jeremybartels.bsky.social · 1d

MRI James #moregoth

It’s Alive! Barker @kellylink.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen The King in Yellow #moregoth

Cat Vincent, (he/him, Useless Eater) @catvincent.bsky.social · 1d

Robert Eastern Bloch #moregoth

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Christopher Scholz @kurisutofa.bsky.social · 1d

Morgen Abend führe ich im wunderschönen Ballhaus Wedding in den Film „Die Stadt der Millionen“ ein – das erste abendfüllende Stadtporträt Berlins.
Am Flügel spielt Anna Vavilkina

www.tip-berlin.de/event/sonsti...

Tickets gibt es hier:
www.ballhauswedding.de/details-regi...

Die Stadt der Millionen - Stummfilmkino mit Livemusik

www.tip-berlin.de

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Jeremy Bartels @jeremybartels.bsky.social · 1d

tartaruspress.com/bronte-a-boo...
Hier erstmals gedruckt zu erwerben

Bronte: A Book of Ryhmes

A Book of Ryhmes by Charlotte Brontë, published by Tartarus Press and the Brontë Society

tartaruspress.com

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Jeremy Bartels @jeremybartels.bsky.social · 1d

Nanni Moretti, remember him? Am I so out of touch?

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

Portland does not own the patent on inflatable animal costume protests, come on people

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Wolfgang Scherreiks @wolfgangscherreiks.bsky.social · 1d

»Sold by nobody and printed by herself.« Der selbstgemachte Gedichtband der dreizehnjährigen Charlotte Brontë: »A Book of Ryhmes«

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Jeremy Bartels @jeremybartels.bsky.social · 1d

tartaruspress.com/bronte-a-boo...
Hier erstmals gedruckt zu erwerben

Bronte: A Book of Ryhmes

A Book of Ryhmes by Charlotte Brontë, published by Tartarus Press and the Brontë Society

tartaruspress.com

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Verbrecher Verlag @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social · 1d

Eine Bitte noch: Unterstützt bitte auch all die anderen tollen Verlage, die gerade in diese hässliche Kampagne hineingezogen werden!

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Verbrecher Verlag @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social · 1d

Seit kurzem bekämpfen ein paar rechte Schreiber linke Verlage, die den Deutsche Verlagspreis erhalten, nun fokussiert man sich auf uns. Wir verlinken nicht. Schön aber, dass behauptet wird, wir seien in Sachen Verlagspreis Bayern München, weil Rekordgewinner.
Zu unseren Büchern: verbrecherei.de

Eine schlecht gefälschte Bundesliga-Tabelle, bei der auf Platz eins der Verbrecher Verlag steht.

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